Euthanasia campaign features French president Sarkozy on deathbed

In a shocking pro-euthanasia campaign released on Wednesday, French president Nicolas Sarkozy is portrayed as a dying patient in a hospital bed in an effort to convince him to change his current stand against the legalization of euthanasia in France.

The text above the disturbing image reads: “Mr. Candidate, Must we put you in such a position to make you change yours in relation to euthanasia?”

French president Nicolas Sarkozy appears in a photoshopped image that shows him in a hospital bed.

Most French people support euthanasia. Polls have found more than nine people out of 10 (92%) in France support a law allowing euthanasia for those with incurable illnesses.

Currently, assisted suicide is illegal in France. ( Watch this France 24 video , which explains the current situation of euthanasia in France).

Sarkozy has become the main target of pro-euthanasia groups, particularly after he reconfirmed his position against euthanasia in a recent interview with Figaro Magazine:

“Legalized euthanasia could lead us to dangerous excesses and would be against our concept of the dignity of the human person.”

–Nicolas Sarkozy (Figaro Magazine interview, Feb. 11, 2012)

But Sarkozy isn’t the only candidate to serve as a model for the campaign. Far-right leaderMarine LePen, who has stated her strict opposition to any softening of the law against euthanasia, is also featured:

“All adults in the advanced or terminal phase of an incurable illness, provoking unbearable physical or psychic suffering, and that can not be alleviated, can request, within precise and strict conditions, to receive medical assistance to end their life with dignity.”